“Parrot like an African Grey. Your job, when sitting theexam, is not to display learning, your job is to regurgitatewhatever you were told or read in the syllabus. Regardlessof what you think about what you were told, your job is torepeat it back.The “Dear Evil Tester” Letters11For multiple choice: don’t think “what is the right answer?”,instead think “what do they think is the right answer?”

Evil Tester answering "Do you have any tips on taking the {insertnominated certification board name here}certification exam?”
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Alan Richardson

“that material presents ‘testing’as: “start spending 100% of my time on the project, formallywriting a test strategy, approach, and plan, and writingtest cases and scripts which are cross referenced to therequirements, even though the requirements are changingand therefore much of the ‘testing’ would lead to waste andrework”
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Alan Richardson,
Dear Evil Tester